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AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America

By The Associated Press

Updated:
03/24/2014 12:51:34 AM EDT

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In this Thursday, March 20, 2014 photo, resident cat, El dueno , tears through a Government Palace corridor as officials await the arrival of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta S. Jacobson, for her official meeting with Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes, in Asuncion, Paraguay.

Brazilians living in the Mandela shantytown of Rio de Janeiro awoke Friday to discover that suspected drug gang members had attacked three police shantytown outposts, injuring three officers and burning one of the metal shipping containers used by officers as offices.

Three Venezuelans died from gunshot wounds during weekend protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro, pushing the death toll to 34 from several weeks of near-daily demonstrations.

In Santiago, tens of thousands of Chileans marched to call on newly installed President Michelle Bachelet to keep campaign promises to bring changes to education and income disparities.

"El Dueno," the resident cat at Paraguay's Government Palace, put in an appearance as officials waited for the arrival of U.

In this Friday, March 21, 2014 photo, police officers stand guard among burned remains of a car from the Pacifying Police Unit post at the Mandela shantytown, part of the Manguinhos slum complex, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio de Janeiro police say suspected drug gang members on Thursday night attacked three police slum outposts and burned one of them. Officials say they'll ask for elite Brazilian federal police to help quell a wave of violence in supposedly pacified slums. ((AP Photo/Felipe Dana))

S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta S. Jacobson for a meeting with President Horacio Cartes.

Mexico's government has been touting the success of a program to provide food help for poor areas, but a visit by Associated Press journalists found nothing happening at the three community kitchens supposedly operating in Guerrero, one of Mexico's poorest and most hunger-plagued states.

In this Saturday, March 22, 2014 photo, a riot police tackles a masked protester during violent clashes at the end of a protest march in Forestal Park, in Santiago, Chile. At the end of the protest march that included more than 30 activist groups pressing newly installed President Michelle Bachelet to follow through with her campaign promises, about 300 masked demonstrators staged violent clashes with police who were then dispersed with tear gas and water. ((AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo))

In this Saturday, March 22, 2014 photo, an anti-government protester walks near a burst of lights caused by a fire cracker launched by protesters at Bolivarian National Policemen during clashes in Caracas, Venezuela. Two more people were reported dead in Venezuela as a result of anti-government protests even as supporters and opponents of President Nicolas Maduro took to the streets on Saturday in new shows of force. ((AP Photo/Esteban Felix))